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Seriously you wouldn't need to burn capitalism to the ground; you'd just need to increase worker salaries, cap C level executive salaries, do some rent control and some more regulation, and maybe incentivize brick-and-mortar businesses, and you'd *have* a capitalism with long-term growth, consumer confidence and thriving markets like you're supposed to believe it has.
And you wouldn't need some giant workers' revolution with storming the Winter Palace, Internationale blasting at top volumes; you'd just need the Democrats to realize even pushing free college tuition or Medicare for all, and the populace would unite behind them as saviors.
But it won't happen, and I honestly think my chance of surviving how the next few years play out? Are real low.
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@emanate I feel like redundant systems are good; I feel leery of a purely socialist/communist/anarchist system for that reason and would like to see a democratic socialist government, some private companies and small scale communities all as a source of resources and support. However I’m not frustrated with leftist growling (I empathize with it!) so much as with “centrists” whom I feel could really improve things with nearly no effort. Yet it feels like they won’t.
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@emanate I’m especially pissed off at the Democrats here. Ocasio-Cortes and Sanders *prove* a voter base can eagerly support Democrats, yet they *choose* to ignore basically market research and to remain Harris/Pelosi/Clinton conservative, reactive, inactive, profiteers with no selling points beyond being not-Republican. And in the end there’s little difference between dying or suffering from Republican malice, bigotry and greed, and dying or suffering from Democrat inactivity.
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@Leucrotta Yeah, thanks for saying this. I get pretty dang anxkous about the 'scorched earth' revolution mentality, because tearing /everything/ down utterly and all at once both almost never happens, and causes a lot more problems than it solves, historically.
Also, the entire industry that is my career shouldn't just collapse outright either--there's worthwhile things and goods from all over the world that we can't just give away to the people or trade for goods and services. And we can only get them because there's a distribution network in place, and transportation, and so on.